Love is friendship on fire -- anonymous

Growing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology.

People tend to become cynical about even the most appalling crisis if it seems to be dragging on, failing to come to term.

I discovered that I am tired of being a person. Not just tired of being the person I was, but any person at all

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.

Each of us carries a room within ourselves, waiting to be furnished and peopled, and if you listen closely, you may need to silence everything in your own room, you can hear the sounds of that other room inside your head.

The fantasies inspired by TB in the last century, by cancer now, are responses to a disease thought to be intractable and capricious--that is, a disease not understood--in an era in which medicine's central premise is that all diseases can be cured.